By Linda Banks
BanaBaabo: LATEST COURT UPDATE: UNIP President Rt. Rev. Dr Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba and two others are reportedly being released for lack of evidence on treason charges.
Slowly but surely, international pressure is mounting, and the cracks in these treason cases are beginning to show. Praise singers, brace yourselves. The political theatre may be heading for an almighty showdown!
You may find it entertaining to brand fellow citizens “militias” out of sheer political bitterness, but your reckless rhetoric is painting Zambia in the darkest colours, frightening away tourists, undermining investor confidence and dragging the nation’s reputation through the mud.
Zambians, man up! you can’t expect foreigners & ba diaspora to always fight your battles. One day it will be too late for Help to come, use your voices in creative ways. Those currently in government found a country with Freedoms, they should be reminded how to respect those freedoms.
Meanwhile, former PEP President Sean Tembo has been discharged following a nolle prosequi entered by DPP Gilbert Phiri.
The question is no longer how loudly you can shout “treason”, but how convincingly you can prove it in a court of law. Political hysteria is not evidence, and propaganda is not prosecution.
Investigative process.
Not international pressure.
The culprit is makebi… That mundubile was just a candidate… I don’t think he knew anything about melitia..
“Those currently in government found a country with freedoms, they should be reminded how to respect those freedoms”.
Is the author of this article serious? What freedoms were there during the notorious PF era? Mr. Kampyongo, the former Minister of home affairs was forever threatening to arrest anyone who dared to protest. The assistant IG, Mr. Bonny “Bone Breaker” Kapeso was constantly issuing threats to break the bones of any one protesting.
It was a death sentence to wear any red garment, worse, UPND party regalia.
A lot of people lost their lives due to political violence perpetrated by PF cadres.
It is an exaggeration to state that there were freedoms under PF. PF was a disaster in every sense of the word.
Bishop Trevor Mwamba is a good and respectable man of God, as well as being a family man Honestly speaking, he was probably just enjoying a glass or two of red wine.
It was so unfortunate that it was just a matter of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
We thank God Almighty for his release.